Microrobots learn from ciliates Date: February 25, 2016 Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Summary: Ciliates can do amazing things: Being so tiny, the water in which they live is like thick honey to ...

These waves move the liquid along with them so that the ciliate -- measuring roughly 100 micrometres, i.e. a tenth of a millimetre, as thick as a human hair -- moves through the liquid.

Scale bar, 10 µm. c, Ciliate of the genus Coleps. The barrel-shaped cell body shows rows of largely reniform perforations at its surface. Arrows indicate the typical posterior spines.

Sripoorna Somasundaram, Jeeva Susan Abraham, Swati Maurya, Seema Makhija, Renu Gupta, Ravi Toteja, Cellular and molecular basis of heavy metal-induced stress in ciliates, Current Science, Vol. 114, No ...

The film explores the fascinating ways various organisms move, focusing on single-celled creatures like amoebas and diatoms, as well as more complex animals like earthworms, snails, snakes, and ...

Ciliates, just like humans, are colonized by a vast diversity of bacteria. Some ciliates and their bacterial symbionts have become friends for life, as researchers from the Max Planck Institute for ...

Such large and species-specific effects of ciliates on larval settlement and post-settlement mortality might impact invertebrate recruitment rates and species assemblages, especially because biofilm ...

Spatial distribution of planktonic ciliates in the western Pacific Ocean: Along the transect from Shenzhen (China) to Pohnpei (Micronesia) Peer-Reviewed Publication Compuscript Ltd ...

Conjugation (or mating) of ciliates is a unique phenomenon among living beings. They have sex not for reproduction or pleasure — they seek to increase genetic variation. Scientists from St ...

We are focusing our research on the systematics and diversity of free-living ciliates, particularly marine and brackish forms in costal waters. Ciliates are found almost everywhere that there is ...